Oscar Isaac Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
